Urban Fantasy writing prompt
The Cats Beneath the Library
Cats in the neighborhood have always been peculiar, but recently they've begun to display openly magical abilities. A local librarian discovers that these cats are guardians of an ancient magical library hidden beneath the city. Tasked by the feline guardians to protect the library from a brewing threat, the librarian learns that much more than books are at stake.
Suggested length: A short story: 1,500 to 5,000 words, or flash fiction under 1,000
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Three ways to take this prompt somewhere nobody else will.
- 1Choose one ordinary object and show how this world changed it.
- 2Start in the middle of the strangest moment, and explain nothing for a page.
- 3Write it as a document from the world: a letter, a field report, a warning sign.
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